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Let's be honest, figuring out how to partner with a contractor, navigating tenant leases or scaling a short term rental portfolio isn't something you learn from a textbook.
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I mean, these are real life curveballs that rookie investors are facing right now. And Today we're answering three questions straight from the BiggerPockets forum to help you avoid these common pitfalls.
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This is the Real Estate Rookie podcast. I'm Ashley Kerr.
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And I'm Tony J. Robins. And with that, let's get into today's first question. All right, so question one comes from Steve in the BiggerPockets forums. And Steve says, I found a partner that I like to start flipping houses with. He's very well qualified and he actually reached out to me to partner up. Our goal is the same. Start a flipping business. He used to own his own contracting business for six years and is now the on site manager of a construction company that builds apartments and subdivisions. I'm bringing the capital. He's doing some of the labor himself and charging me nothing for labor. Anything he can't do. He will charge me book costs for a specialist labor and cost for materials. He offered me a 7030 partnership. I figured instead of a private loan, 70% sounded pretty appealing. I'll also get to help out and learn some trades with him. My main concern is he doesn't have enough cash now to have any skin in the game or cover any upfront fees. I asked if he'd give me a personal guarantee on a private asset around 10k. He said he doesn't own anything outright that's worth 10k. Does anyone have protection recommendations so I can sleep a little easier? I'm getting cold feet since I'll have the skin in the game financially if something goes south on the flip and he doesn't have enough to pay me back or we lose the money. How will he pay me? All right, this is a great question. I think first Ash might be beneficial just to to discuss the different types of partnerships. So there's a debt partnership and then there's there's an equity partnership. Steve, for you, it sounds like what you guys are pursuing is an equity partnership. If you really want to make sure that you're protecting yourself, then maybe a better scenario here is for you just to be this person's private money lender where you give them a loan, and with that loan, now you get a lien against the property. You get a promissory note that outlines how much he's supposed to pay you back. And if for whatever reason he doesn't repay you. Well, now you've got a means to go after the property and try and recoup some of what was invested. That is the way that, that a debt partnership works. The equity partnership, on the other hand, is like you guys going into this deal together. So there really isn't, I mean, and again, you can set up the partnership any way that you want. But typically in an equity partnership, you guys are sharing in both the upside potential of that deal and the downside potential of that deal. So if things do go sideways, there is no he's paying me back. It's, hey, I brought in the capital, he's bringing in his time. And this is kind of the risks that we're taking is that, hey, maybe he doesn't finish or maybe this does go wrong. So I think in an equity partnership, you get more of the upside, but part of what you're accepting is that downside risk as well.
